Importance and Purpose of Sabbath School Work
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their powers, improving all their opportunities, trusting to what the
Lord can do with their consecrated abilities. Let them inquire at every
step, “Is this the way of the Lord?” Humility is a characteristic of those
who have true wisdom, and no matter what may be their attainments,
they will not be self-confident and boastful.
The Lord calls for young men and women to gird themselves for
lifelong, earnest labor in the Sabbath school work. Spasmodic efforts
will not avail to accomplish much good, or to make you successful
laborers in the work of God. By patient continuance in well-doing,
you are to become laborers together with God. You are to reckon
yourselves the servants of God by the day. Be diligent in your work
for one day, and see that you make no crooked paths for your feet, lest
the lame be turned out of the path of rectitude by your misdoings.—
Testimonies on Sabbath-School Work, 52, 53
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An Abundant Reward
No one can labor in the Sabbath school or in the temperance work
without reaping a bountiful harvest, not only in the end of the world,
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but in the present life. In the very effort to enlighten and bless others,
his own views will become clearer and broader. The more we endeavor
to explain the truth to others, with a love for souls, the plainer will
it become to ourselves. It ever opens with new beauty and force to
the understanding of the expounder,—
Testimonies on Sabbath-School
Work, 108
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